Today's News

A year after county residents learned about high levels of contaminates in the water supply, a new water treatment process will be initiated that aims to deplete those contaminates.

The Lancaster County Water and Sewer District will change how it treats water at its Catawba River water plant starting in September. The treatment plant will replace free chlorine in its water with chemicals called chloramines.

The change is being made primarily because of Environmental Protection Agency regulations and is intended to improve the water disinfection process.

Authorities still aren’t releasing much information about a shooting that left a Lancaster man dead last week.

Lancaster County Coroner Mike Morris said Tuesday that autopsy results have come back on the body of Larry Curtis Duncan, 26, who was fatally shot and found lying in the front yard of a North Willowlake Road home early Friday.

However, Morris said he would not disclose the cause of death or any related information because the shooting remains under heavy investigation.

INDIAN LAND – About two years ago, while Bob Paulson was on vacation, he began reading a book that would soon change his life.

Paulson, an Indian Land resident and editor of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Decision magazine, was reading a book called “Terrify No More” about the issue of human trafficking.

The book detailed the efforts of the International Justice Mission, a human rights agency that deals with slavery and oppression around the world, and was written by that organization’s president Gary A. Haugen.

A 12-year-old boy told Lancaster police he was shot at Wednesday afternoon while walking home on Miller Street.

The boy said he and two other boys were walking between Sycamore Run Apartments and Miller Grove Apartments about 7:20 p.m. when gunshots were fired from a burgundy Ford Crown Victoria, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.

The shots came from a back-seat passenger, who appeared to be aiming at the Miller Grove Apartments office building, the boy told police.

As Lancaster County Administrator, Steve Willis is often swamped with more duties than he can handle during a normal work week. Sometimes, he works seven straight days without a break.

That’s why he asked for some help.

“(County) Council had been talking about adding a deputy administrator for quite some time,” Willis said. “From a personal standpoint, my wife would tell me she would like to see me at home on the weekends and after church. Just the amount of paperwork, trying to stay in control, that’s the biggest thing for me.”

VAN WYCK – When Rosemary Fann lost her husband, Randy, in early 2007, little did she know that two years later she’d lose her home as well.

Fann, 61, used to live in a trailer off Van Wyck Road in Van Wyck. Set back from the road and nestled beneath several trees, the Fanns lived there for nine years.

The property holds several memories for her, from the bountiful garden full of cucumbers and pumpkins that grew in her backyard, to the ramp her husband built for her after health concerns made it difficult for her to climb the stairs.